Former NFL star Darren Sharper has been sentenced to prison for drugging and raping a woman. However, L.A. Superior Court Judge Triche Milazzo refused, claiming it was too lenient in June.
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One of Sharp’s victims – the only one to speak at his sentencing hearing – rebuffed his display of contrition.
Federal prosecutors had accepted a multistate plea agreement calling for a 9-year sentence.
A total of 16 victims have come forward with allegations against Sharper.
The woman, who Sharper admitted to drugging and raping, described the attack’s intense impact on her life. She sentenced Sharper on Thursday to 18 years and four months, and a $20,000 fine. Sharper pleaded guilty or no contest to various charges related tot he crimes in Louisiana, California, Arizona, and Nevada. “A mistake happens once and you never make it again”.
U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentenced Sharper on Thursday, telling him she couldn’t understand how he did what he did, since he was college educated and obviously had grown up “in one of the most loving households”.
He was in tears as he sat in the courtroom, and apologized “1,000 times” to his victims, before adding his victims, ‘didn’t deserve anything, being a part of my heinous decisions, ‘ the New Orleans Advocate reports.
Darren Sharper was sentenced on Thursday after being arrested in 2014 in connection with the sexual assault of multiple women. “I still don’t know why I lived my life right for 38 years, and then I took this path”. The sentence she imposed, 18 years and four months imprisonment, was 15 months short of the maximum.
Milazzo found that sentence to be “inappropriate”, and Sharper agreed to leave his fate in the judge’s hands rather than risk having his later admissions to investigators used against him at a trial.
A woman who woke up next to Sharper after being drugged also spoke before Triche handed down the sentence. In addition to his prison sentence, he faces three years of supervised release.
Nunez and Licciardi are tentatively scheduled to be sentenced in state court in October 20.
Sharper, a six-time All-Pro safety and five-time Pro Bowl selection during a 14-year career, played for the Green Bay Packers, the Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints team that won the 2010 Super Bowl.
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He was working as an National Football League network analyst when women began telling police in several cities similar stories of blacking out while drinking with him and waking up groggy to find they had been sexually abused.
